Legal Hold News & Articles

This week, the U.S. Congress heard testimony about prospective e-Discovery-related additions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure -- the first such hearing since the rules were last updated in 2006. Did you miss it?

The last time we talked about ZL Technologies’ Unified Archive was when it released version 7.0. So it’s only appropriate that today we talk about its latest release -- version 7.0.4 of Unified Archive.

Earlier this year, Science Express published researchers’ calculations of the world's total technological capacity in an effort to determine how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute. What they found indicated that humankind is able to store at least 295 exabytes of information. It’s unclear how much of that information accounts for redundancy or duplication, however.

Social media is no longer just for the rest of us. As we’ve reported previously, industry after industry, no matter how regulated, wants to reap the benefits of social media without the burden of social media. Social collaboration is sexy. Records management isn’t. The same goes for e-Discovery. It’s only been in the past year or so that we’ve seen vendors within the e-Discovery space really tackle the issues that social media brings into the enterprise. Until then, they only predicted about its influence.

Nothing perks up a Friday like delving into the underbelly of the enterprise in an effort to reveal and analyze the growing impact of cloud computing and social media on electronic discovery. Thanks to a report released by Clearwell Systems, conducted in conjunction with analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), we can do just that.

Need an e-Discovery solution that reflects perspectives of both the IT and legal departments? The search may be over. Today, Exterro released a new data management layer for its integrated solution suite. Fusion Zeta is an automated, easy-to-administer application designed to handle in-place early case assessment, preservation, collection and analysis. But perhaps most importantly, it gives legal teams 360-degree access into the entire e-discovery process, while eliminating the chaos of manual processes.

Clearwell (news, site) continued to build its e-Discovery platform this week with the release of a legal hold module that adds an automated hold processes to the platform, giving enterprises scalable, repeatable workflows that will track and manage all legal hold notices.

Emphasising the importance of workflow in the legal review process, legal hold specialist kCura has added another component to its already extensive review platform that will manage not just risk assessment, but also how legal workflows are implemented across the platform.

Six months ago Bridgeway Software released an update to their legal hold solution. Inspired by their conversations with customers, new features were added.

When it comes to eDiscovery Bridgeway Software (news, site) goes straight to the source -- their customers -- to understand exactly the processes they use. So when it comes to Bridgeway Legal Hold 2.1, Bridgeway’s newest release, the new enhancements reflect the needs of their users.

More releases from Autonomy (news, site)  this time an appliance that will facilitate eDiscovery with early case assessment and legal hold and a new solution specifically for the law profession that will automatically tell users when there is a conflict of interest in cases.

Open Text has extended its Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment solution released in partnership with Recommind late last year to its records management eDOCS customers.

Open Text eDOCS customers will get eDiscovery capabilities woven into their overall content, records and e-mail management practices. Will this solution play the get-out-of-(recession)-jail-free-card for struggling lawyers?

PSS Systems has announced a new release of its Atlas Suite, aiming to cut down on unnecessary legal risks as well as discovery and data management costs. It has a familiar ring to many of the latest e-discovery releases and announcements.

In times of financial distress, legal risks and costs are wont to increase. However, if your company is wise enough to invest in the software that can lower their enterprise legal risk, while effectively improving their ediscovery process at a reduced cost, chances are the recessional legal blues will be generally avoided.

eDiscovery powerhouse CaseCentral has teamed up with CommVault, a provider of high-performance data protection and data storage to deliver an end-to-end eDiscovery solution.  

The goal is to combine the indexing, search and retrieval capabilities of CommVault Simpana Archive and Search software, with CaseCentral’s eDiscovery Review Platform. Together, they will be able to offer a suite of solutions that cover the entire EDRM model.  

The solution promises to minimize the need for third-party processing and help control the high costs of legal reviews by culling irrelevant information before it goes for review by outside counsel.

As we’ve previously reported, legal hold processes (or the lack thereof) may be the ones to blame for eDiscovery risks. But there’s a solution, and not just one.

The newest one — Insite Legal Hold — comes from Recommind, a provider of enterprise search, email management and eDiscovery systems for enterprises. The company claims Insite is the “industry’s first practical solution.”